9:13 PM,
May 1, 2013

Police respond to a suspicious package call at the Chase Bank branch on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

Written by

Zack Southwell
zsouthwell@thenewsstar.com

The bomb disposal unit of the Monroe Police Department was called to the scene of a suspicious package Wednesday at a Chase Bank branch on Martin Luther King Drive.The initial call to police was made by Monroe resident Latoya Butler, who called the suspicious package as a "bomb."

"I was parking in front of the building and a man parked next to me saw it and called it a 'bomb,'" Butler said. "So I backed my car out of my parking spot and called police."Butler described the package as a "book with wires coming out of it."

Sgt. Mark Johnson with Monroe police said the bomb team's robot rolled into the ...